6Mbps Uncapped ADSL - Which ISP?

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Good Morning All,

My line has recently (yesterday) been upgraded from 4Mbps to 6Mbps. Currently I use the 4Mbps uncapped service.

I was wondering if there are any ISP's that offer 6Mbps uncapped service, without having to subscribe to the 10Mbps service.

Has anyone had any experience with any of the Uncapped ADSL ISP's on the 6Mbps line?

Any assistance/recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
 
There aren't too many ISP's offering the incremental accounts. For now I would recommend staying on 4mbps uncapped. You should see a slight boost as your network overheads should not impact.

I am sure eventually the ISP's will start offering these accounts. As far as i know, there is an IS based 4mbps uncapped account that offers full line speed, but im not sure about the shaping/throttling.

Mweb also limits the 4mbps uncapped account, but their limiter isnt too strict.

I suppose it depends on what you want to use the account for...
 
a true 4mbs account should run at 500kbs downloads , and burst to 600kps for sites etc, or my mweb use to do it.

normally you cant max a 4mbs account on a 4mb line, because of overheads etc.
 
ISPs should offer burst capacity... allow you run full line speed for 10MB or 50MB or whatever, and then throttle you down... and then advertise it as working like that.
My resistance to a 4mb uncapped account on a 6mb line for a long time was the slower browsing speed, or slower downloading of smaller files etc. Sure it's not a big deal, but it was my perception. Bursting would fix that.
 
I do understand (but disagree) with shaping/throttling during business hours, even though in today's day and time this should not happen, but as my current ISP does this and after hours gives me the package speed I would also be interested in an Uncapped ISP that lets you go near you line speed limit after hours.

I think Axxess used to do it? Not sure if they still do?
 
If you've been on uncapped for quite a while like me, your monthly usage has probably averaged out at about 80-100GB (well it happened to me and most of my buddies at least). There's only so much content you can consume, even at 1080p quality. So I would consider investing in a high-cap account, instead of uncapped. Afrihost have some reasonable capped deals, where the bandwidth is unshaped, but the cost per GB is still nowhere close to the cost per GB on uncapped accounts.

Afrihost have 50GB for R399 and 120GB for R950. I reckon getting a full 6mbps/8mbps/10mbps speed with a 50GB cap is better than uncapped throttled to 4mbps. You can then download what you want when you want it, and get it a lot quicker, due to utilizing your full line speed, and downloading with unshaped bandwidth.

WebAfrica have 75GB for R599 if you want something in between, but the data is shaped, and doesn't perform so well on torrents during business hours.

What I would like to see from our ADSL ISPs is high cap accounts, that are not throttled/rate-limited so that you can utilize your ffull line speed, in increments of 50GB.
- 50GB @ R300
- 100GB @ R500
- 150GB @ R650
- 200GB @ R800
 
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This is what i have said long ago. not everyone needs uncapped, some people needs unshaped, capped, fast speeds for stuff that they need immediately. like you said the guys will eventually settle down to 100GB to 200GB depending on their needs.
 
Remember OP, there is only upto 10MB accounts and not inbetweeners.

Cheapest account i think is the one for R999 excl line rental but again you lose out as you can get only 6MB ;/. I suggest trying Telkom again to bump you up, i was on 6MB for a few weeks until i took a chance and asked to be bumped faster, now i get 10MB and stable which is super surprising given my line stats etc.

Basically, try to get that full 10MB, if you cannot then rather downgrade to 4MB as suggested above and get a 4MB account.

Just keep an eye on the Afrihost / MWEB / Telkom / WA uncapped feedback threads to find out how users are doing. I do know onething, next month is going to be an interesting month and how iSPs respond to upgraded lines (384>1MB and 1MB>2MB). No definite dates from Telkom but its happening and effects the higher speed accounts as we get more load etc.

June should be a month of observation for anyone thinking of jumping between iSPs or looking for an uncapped account IMHO.

Get a prepaid account and watch the forum closely :) best advice i can give now.

TomasW said:
Good Morning All,

My line has recently (yesterday) been upgraded from 4Mbps to 6Mbps. Currently I use the 4Mbps uncapped service.

I was wondering if there are any ISP's that offer 6Mbps uncapped service, without having to subscribe to the 10Mbps service.

Has anyone had any experience with any of the Uncapped ADSL ISP's on the 6Mbps line?

Any assistance/recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
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Uncapped is always preferable. I'm on Openweb Gold on IS and the account runs at 5megs usually.
 
Qwikslver said:
Uncapped is always preferable. I'm on Openweb Gold on IS and the account runs at 5megs usually.
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I am also on the Openweb 4Mbps Uncapped Gold Account but the most I get is 480Kbps. When I change it to prepaid data I get stable and constant 640Kbps.

So yes, their is a need for uncapped accounts that are sold in 1Mbps/2Mbps increments, or after hours full line speed just like Axxess used to have it.

I don't see those packages anymore, I think that has changed with them being bought by Afrihost if I recall correctly.
 
Has anyone tried this OpenWeb product "10 Mbps Gold After Hours"?

It is fairly reasonably priced, and in any case the current Openweb 4Mbps Gold Uncapped Account is throttled during business hours so I don't really use it until I get home from work.

This is more in line with the old Axxess packages.

If anyone has some feedback on this one for me, I would appreciate any advise.
 
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All IS 4Mb uncapped accounts recently got upgraded to 10Mb with no extra cost.

I have a 6Mb uncapped with vitality 4Mb uncapped for R489 and I usually get my full 700 kB/s if I do direct downloads or ftp (I don't torrent much, use downstorms lowest package for that)

I am on 280GB alrdy with them this month with no sign of speed decrease for direct downloads
 
I am on the afterhours account from openweb, anyone want full speed afterhours this account is for you.
I am on the R699 package and i get a constant 900-1000KB/s afterhours and the whole weekend.
But a warning daytime speed is a crawl.
 
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